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Alexander Smith

"Books are a finer world within the world."

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."

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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."

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"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."

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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."

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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."

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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

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Amber Hurdle

"Read much, but not many books."

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"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."

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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
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"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
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"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."
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"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."
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"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."
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"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."
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"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."
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"A great man is the man who does something for the first time."
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